I will teach you to become a confident English speaker without schools and rules
by Mr. Vig
A reader wrote with this question:
“I have learned English for many years. I known about grammar, but I can’t speak. My mouth can not open when I want to talk. I think about everything in my brain. However, I can’t make a sentence. What do I do?”
This reminded me of a famous quote by the American baseball player and coach Yogi Berra: Read More >
by Mr. Vig
“What happened to your leg?”
I was walking with a limp and I guess my friend noticed.
“A clown was chasing me with a chainsaw and I whacked it hard against an operating table.” Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Do you believe humans can learn languages naturally?
Or do you believe someone has to teach us languages?
I believe how you answer this question will predict if you will become fluent or stay stuck at intermediate. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
I was having lunch with a Romanian friend.
I said “The waiter’s a knucklehead.”
She said, “What does that mean?” Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Starting your own business so you can have more time is like having a baby so you can get more sleep.
That’s why last Monday, during a national holiday, when normal people were relaxing in the park, I was working in the park.
I was shooting videos for my new youtube channel. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
“I took some classes at a language school and now I speak fluent English”…
is a sentence I have never, ever, never, ever heard one person say.
Not once. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
That means I can see a lot of rooftops and a lot of pigeons.
Whenever I need to think, I like to look out my windows at the pigeons. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Have you seen the movie Interstellar?
This was one of those movies I couldn’t stop thinking about.
My favorite scene was when the astronauts landed on a planet that had super gravity. And the result of this super gravity was that every minute they stayed on the planet, seven years would pass on Earth.
Weird. Right? Read More >
by Mr. Vig
When I was a kid we played a game called “Opposite Day.”
“Yes” meant “no.” “Stop” meant “go.” And I think you got extra points if you walked backwards, or something like that.
What if today was Opposite Day for English? Read More >
by Mr. Vig
“Wow. This guy’s an expert.”
A few years ago I was sitting in the Beer Museum on Dlouha Street in Prague talking with a new friend about women.
He knew about psychology, body language, evolutionary theory… Read More >